Senior Platform Engineer, Castor

• You have 5+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering, but we’re open to a broad range of skills and expertise. Do you have experience in application development roles, working on plenty of deployment pipelines and monitoring/observability problems? We’d love to hear from you!
• You have the ability to describe the advantages and drawbacks of various system/cloud architectures and crafting architectural designs for them
• You care deeply about security, reliability, and building systems that meet high operational standards
• You’re a strong advocate for best practices, and you enjoy sharing your knowledge through documentation, training, and mentorship
• Strong professional experience with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Nomad, and development tooling within this area
• An understanding of DevOps and Site Reliability Principles, and the ability to explain how these models enable efficient IT operations
• Proficiency in deploying and optimizing cloud-based solutions in one of the major cloud providers, such as Azure
• Experience building CLI applications or web-based projects, preferably in Python or Go
• Proficiency in using at least one configuration management tool, such as Ansible
• Experience with server and application performance monitoring and the ability to troubleshoot such issues
• A commitment to engineering excellence, including high code quality, comprehensive testing, and operational robustness
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams
• Experience collaborating with other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, documentation, and knowledge-sharing sessions

Desirable

• As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be joining the team which supports Castor’s developers in getting their services running in production in a secure and reliable manner
• After successfully completing a journey into public cloud throughout 2021-2022, our team is now helping development teams leverage cloud technologies and SaaS options in their products with a focus on containerization utilizing Kubernetes
• As such, the main focus of this role is to build out a platform and fundamental infrastructure necessary for product development teams to operate their services on top of Azure cloud solutions and Kubernetes
• Typical day to day work will also include maintenance work necessary to “keep the lights on”, onboarding services to Kubernetes, development of supporting services and internal developer tooling using Python or Go
• As part of your role you will also take part in our on-call rotation